Talk:ghost from one's past

RFD discussion: February–June 2018

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ghost from one's past

SOP? @Suzukaze-c --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 13:18, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

SOP with which sense of ghost? I don't see any fitting sense, hence it doesn't appear to be SOP. -84.161.27.215 20:12, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Isn't a ghost simply "something that haunts"? --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 16:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Keep. I see it as an idiom. -- · (talk) 07:50, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Keep; even if it's not directly idiomatic, the phrase is highly set. PseudoSkull (talk) 07:22, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Weak keep (as a redirect) but move, IMO. Comparing "ghost from his past", "ghost from the past", "specter from the past", "spectre from the past" (specter/spectre "from his past" was too rare to plot), I find that "ghost from the past" is most common, so I think that should be the lemma. (Even if we still want a possessive as the lemma, I think it should be "someone's" since we normally use "one's" as a placeholder for the first person, right? but as those ngrams show, this often refers to other people.) The ngrams also show that the wording is a bit variable, but it does seem idiom-like. - -sche (discuss) 23:48, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Closed as kept. bd2412 T 12:19, 1 June 2018 (UTC)